Fan Rips Down Rachel Chinouriri's Posters for Adéla Photo — SkimNews
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- Rachel Chinouriri had promotional posters for her second studio album "I Think I Spoke Too Soon" (Oct. 16 release) torn down across London by a fan who filmed the act to take photos in front of Adéla's "Ain't in LA" single ad beneath
- Adéla, returning from a brief social media hiatus, defended Chinouriri on Instagram, calling the act "so fucking ass" and telling fans not to remove other artists' paid promotion — which she noted is already hard "ESPECIALLY as a Black woman"
- The fan's original caption said she left Tyla's poster up "cos she tanked," which other fans cited as evidence of "seemingly recurring threads of anti-Blackness" within Adéla's fast-growing fandom
- Chinouriri responded on X that she personally paid for the posters after "10 years of hard work convincing people I'm good enough for this marketing," asking the fan to at least leave the poster intact for the photo
- On a private TikTok, Chinouriri said she funded much of her album promotion out of her own pocket, called ripping the posters down "a little bit crazy" and addressed the fan directly: "I've seen it, babes. This is my response, and I don't know what more you want me to say."
Why it matters: Chinouriri stated she self-funded much of her album's physical promotion after years of groundwork, making the destruction of paid posters a direct financial hit to a Black female artist in pop — and the fan's own caption, which singled out Tyla, widened the story into a reckoning over anti-Blackness inside Adéla's own rising fandom, not just one bad actor.
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